Monday, May 21, 2012

Hello!! It is time for another fun challenge over at Lawnscaping! This time it is all about embossing. First, let me say, I am obsessed with Instagram - and I thought it would be a cute idea to turn the polaroid from Lawn Fawn's "Say Cheese" into an Instagram camera. So - I did a few things by hand ( which is amazing within itself - I can't draw to save my life). I first drew the colorful Instagram lines on the camera. Then, I made my own mini polaroid. This may have been done before - I am not sure, but I think its so stinkin' cute!!

I created a "love bird" scene with the birds from "Gnome Sweet Gnome", added the tiny little heart from " Plus One" and my sentiment comes from "Grand Greetings". I did two types of embossing. I did dry embossing, but with a twist. I inked up my tiny hearts embossing folder with "Love Letter" Memento Ink, and then dry embossed my card stock. I heat embossed both my camera, and my little birdies. For dimension, I added pop dots to both my camera/polaroid, and my sentiment. I hope you all think its as cute as I do!!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Hi all! I wasn't expecting to make a post today - but I wanted to share with all of you my first RAK from Sharon Martinelli ( smscrapper ). I wasn't expecting do receive anything from her at all. I know I should do a video showing all the stuff here in detail - but honestly - don't have time for a video right now, and I wanted to acknowledge Sharon the day I received it - SO - Sharon!!! Thank you girl so much for all the nice goodies!! I love all the trims, and such you've sent me. I don't buy trims and little flowers like this on my own - so its neat to be able to see what I can do with these! You're card is gorgeous!! So much detail!! I'm in awe!!!! I appreciate you thinking of me so much!! You've made my day!!!

You're awesome and I thank you so much for thinking of me!!! I love it all!

Monday, May 7, 2012

Hi Friends - I'm on a roll - can't stop me now... **grin** Back to share with you a card I finished for a challenge going on over at Paper Smooches - a Card stock challenge.. Make a card using nothing but card stock - no patterned paper. Sometimes that is harder for me than anything, because I {heart} my 6 x 6 paper pads - and I've got enough to last me for a lifetime.

I am also submitting this into the latest Lawnscaping Challenge. So - this was another fun challenge for me. I just made my scene with PS set "Metropolis". I know at times I have a "lead foot" - so I "ran" with the idea of this cute lil car speeding down the road. He's got good intentions though - he's speeding to make it into this challenges and saying "hi" at the same time! HAHA.

I used not only this PS set - I used a couple of Lawn Fawn sets - like " Flying by" for part of the sentiment, and " You've Got Mail" - the wavy lines to represent the car speeding by. :o) The "Hi" sentiment comes from PS "Word Up".

Monday, Monday...I'm actually enjoying Monday today as I am on vacation, and free to be crafty a little bit more this week than usual. This morning, I wanted to share my card for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge. Over at the blog, they are celebrating their 1st birthday. So - its all about making birthday cards!!

Who doesn't love getting a birthday card - and to me birthday cards are suppose to be colorful! Since its CAS-ual Friday's birthday, I wanted to incorporate the logo's birthday colors - blue and yellow. I love this embossing folder! And - I thought the sentiment went well with the occasion. It comes from Stampology. I stamped my balloons from one of my Fiskars stamp sets ( sorry, I don't have the name on this set).

So - Happy Birthday CAS-ual Fridays!! Here to many more happy birthdays and fun challenges. :o)

Sunday, May 6, 2012

I'm getting all of my challenge submissions done today - and this time I am back with the latest SSS challenge over at Lily Pad Cards. Make a card representing rain, or rain related. I got out my "Ain't Love Grand" hostess set from SU!. It has this cute umbrella image in it. I wanted to do a emboss resist technique, and I did that with the water drop from the Lawn Fawn set " Plus One". The Distress Inks I used were Tumbled Glass, and Chipped Sapphire.

My sentiment also comes from Lawn Fawn - but from the set " On the Mend". You can't really tell in the photo, but I added some glaze gel pen to the water puddles. I finished off the card with some Twinery Twine. If I was feeling down or blue - getting this card would perk up my spirits for sure. :o)

Good Sunday afternoon!! I am sharing with all of you today my first submission to ABNH ( A Blog Named Hero) for the Topsy Turvy Challenge. Use a sentiment as something other than a sentiment. So - I was looking through all of my Hero Arts stamp sets - and saw a rainbow - and it clicked in my head!! Make a rainbow using different sentiments!! This was so much fun to create!! I love color - and rainbows!!

So I took sentiments from these Hero Arts sets - "Sky's the Limit", and "Friends". All my inks are Memento ink colors. I love Memento as you all know! When I got the the bottom of my rainbow - I didn't have a sentiment that was short enough to curve around to finish off the rainbow - so I saw the "moon" image on the "Sky's the Limit" set - and though perfect!!

This was a fun challenge! I look forward to all the creativity that comes out of this one!! Everyone get crafty and see what you can do with it!! :o)

** On a side note** - I am on vacation all this week from work - and I'm so happy to have the time off to enjoy some crafty time, and just the break in general!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Hello everyone! Hope everybody's week is going smoothly! I wanted to pop in real quick, and share with all of you my second submission to this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge. I got inspired today by seeing one of my very first cards I ever made!! I have an embossing folder that I haven't used in a VERY long time, and had the idea today to use it on another submission. As I mentioned in my first post - the "theme" is to made a CAS card inspired by trees or flowers since we are celebrating Spring time! So - I got home - and I thought it would be pretty cool to do "color embossing" ( that is what I call it at least).

All of my inks are my much loved Memento Inks - Lulu Lavender, Dandelion, Summer Sky and Angel Pink. To add a bit of color to my embossed flower, I took my Copic Markers G05, and FYG2. I added a pink gem in the middle of the flower to finish it off. It turned out so cool!! I feel it represents Spring, don't you!!